Is anyone else seeing cases where Windows 8.1 Skydrive is not synchronising between cloud and PC?

I have a laptop with Skydrive 8.1 and files added/changed seem to upload fine to the cloud storage. However on my tablet, also running Skydrive 8.1 the files are not being download (or uploaded in case of a new local file is added).

After a couple of hours watching the dots flying on the screen I went to bed (Power Settings on the tablet were to Never sleep when plugged in). The 58 missing files from the new folder were there when I got up in the morning as well as a few files removed from other directories have now gone.

Frustrating that "cloud" would take more than a two hours to sync 58 files. Sure if I needed the files I could open on the browser, but the whole idea of "offline" on a tablet is for those times when you aren't connected - in the air, on a bus, etc...

I wonder if Skydrive is optimised for large number of files (not to confuse of a number of large files).

Another interesting thing, seemingly unrelated, I've noticed: even though the switch "Access all files offline" was set, the status for the Skydrive folder itself is "Available online only". The subfolders are all available offline because I marked them as such when configuring the tablet via Windows Explorer.

I noticed this because I created a new .txt file on my laptop to see how long before it would show up on the tablet after this long sync last night. I put the file on the Skydrive folder (not a subfolder) and its status was "online only". Also if I open Windows Explorer and click on an empty space on the Skydrive folder it shows "online only".

I changed the Skydrive folder itself to "Available offline" via Windows Explorer now. It seems that switch in the Skydrive app doesn't do much...

I've set my skydrive folder to available offline several times and it still seems to want to download files when I access them. It can be an issue sometimes as I often work offline.

The old version of the skydrive app before windows 8.1 was much better in my opinion. I was able to select what location I could store files and which files/folders to sync and had no issue with this offline/online stuff.

I am thinking that this new version is another concept that would be fine on an RT but not on a desktop.

Yes, the new process is over-simplified and details are now too obscure.

The worst part for me is that I "failed" to see any advisory/warning about the changes which are very significant. For a while I thought they had improved Skydrive so it wasn't so obtrusive when updating. Instead I found out it simply wasn't syncing most of my files.

Interesting thing is that files actually are being synchronised up and down despite the error message. The only thing that is not really working is file picker - when SkyDrive is selected it throws an error.

I am afraid I won't wait for the update as this is now preventing me from doing some work here. Trying to use Modern UI apps only and file picker relies on Skydrive - which just says "sorry can't access files now, try again later" (and yes, files are all available offline).

freitasm: I am afraid I won't wait for the update as this is now preventing me from doing some work here. Trying to use Modern UI apps only and file picker relies on Skydrive - which just says "sorry can't access files now, try again later" (and yes, files are all available offline).

Not if you're trying to use only Modern UI apps which will only use the Skydrive file picker - things such as Project Siena for example (which is exactly where I noticed this happening first time, then lead me to the screenshots above).